Rebellious Pixel Soldiers

I’ve been meaning to do this for sometime now and that is to include in this site the wisdom of others. I think it would be too selfish of me not to share their lessons or body of work.

To start off, I thought I’d show the art that caught my attention today. It’s “Sea of Rectangles” by SL Power. I stumbled upon it in PopFuzz. Being a lover of colour, I was entranced by the play of colour in pixel like composition. It also reminded me of the paintinga I saw (during my Wk12 Life Drawing class break) in display at ANU’s “Structure” Exhibition. They were by Stephanie Haygarth.

Her work on display reminded me somehow of the bathroom tiles at my previous residence. Not that my old tiles were as pretty. In fact, they were brown with retro patterns. I think it was the size and shape of the square patterns. They seem to match my tiles. Yes. That must have been it.

My next thought was, how did she create such lovely pattern? With a square block dipped in water colour then stamped on canvas? I liked how some squares were unaligned. Like rebellious pixel soldiers or students refusing to stand in line…or proof of shoddy work by a poor tiler.

The exhibition Structure, displaying new work by recent graduates, is on now until the 7th of June 2008.